readers RESPOND Chinese communists invaded Vietnam, I hope that our personal and collective via EMAIL some not so good but all interesting and Soviets mobilized and we stood on the brink quests to understand will never end. worth noting. And the Winner Is… of a nuclear war—no demonstrations. Thanks for a very good issue that helps us Memorial Mention The shootings started out as polarized Congratulations to Claire Pressler, It is important to remember that there understand better. God bless you, me, Kent I have not been back to Kent State since and divisive, with barely a place to hold a BA ’15, Lakewood, Ohio, who applied are always things that we don’t know, that State, America, Vietnam, Cambodia, Earth. 1983 so I have not seen your memorial. discussion without a public fight, but fifty to the KSU Fall 2020 ABSN (Accelerated we might not even be able to know. It is RAYMOND P. OPEKA, BBA ’79 My thought is, if not already done, that years later the Kent State administration has Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program, important to always ask questions. Grand Rapids, Mich. the names of all the Americans that died made “May 4” part of their agenda. They are so she was back in school fall semester, One thing I learned from your issue was in Vietnam be included. They are the at last on board with an acknowledgement of taking two classes online and two hybrid. that protesters didn’t fear that the National Many Memories reason our four students lived and died. these significant events. (Kent State’s accelerated second degree Guard would shoot or would shoot blanks. I just finished the spring/summer 2020 The names could be like crowns around It took a long time, but the end result is that BSN for non-nurses is created for students The three black squirrels in the spring/ Were the guardsmen more afraid of the edition, which I thought was amazing. Just the memorials of Allison, Jeffrey, Sandra some justice has been done. The families’ who already hold a bachelor’s degree and summer 2020 issue are found in the top protesters than the protesters were of the for fun, I wanted to share my KSU memories. and William. Their heart-wrenching decades of pain have been acknowledged. leads to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in photo on page 9, greeting the Golden guardsmen? If the students had been At the end of April, my wife and I headed biographies are actually reflections of the The wounded are listened to, not as much as few as 15 months.) Flashes at the Tropical Smoothies Café wiser, they would not have been surprised north on Route 43 to Kent. It was a route I’ve biographies of all who died overseas. In as some parties would like and more than She wrote, “The package made my day! I Frisco Bowl; page 33, hanging out on Tom at the shootings or when many people traveled quite often. We knew the campus fact, this “micro war scene” of young others would like but, unlike the early annual love everything. The card is staying on my Batiuk’s drawing board; and page 36, supported the guardsmen and sent hate would be deserted (how rare) and we could people dying on their homeland reflects May 4 events, at least this is no longer a desk all semester for good luck.” We wish attending the Kent State Men’s Soccer mail to the wounded. take a leisurely tour. the pain of the Vietnamese and their matter of convincing the administration of her all the best as she prepares to help Alumni Reunion. Their parents were members of “The I showed her where I was when John Glenn horrific day-to-day life. the school or the State of Ohio that what meet the huge need for nurses. Thanks to all who entered! Greatest Generation.” They had not only orbited the Earth and when John Kennedy Thank you for all who have dedicated so occurred was an unnecessary tragedy. survived two World Wars and the Great was killed. We drove by the Hub where we much time in order to not let our country It deserves and finally has received via MAIL Depression, they had helped spread commuters hung out. I showed her where the forget. Maybe, maybe we will not make the acknowledgement and continued analysis and the students. It was not pretty. democracy and prosperity, end colonialism ROTC building was that got burned; I had an same mistake again. by the university. We have nothing to thank Reflections on May 4, 1970 RICHARD SCHROER, BS ’66, PHD ’70 and segregation, built businesses, elementary ed class there. We also checked ROSEANN STROEBEL, MA ’83 but the passage of time for that. . . . But I I was at Kent from the fall of 1962 until the Colfax, NC universities, etc. They were facing nuclear out the hill where the shootings took place. Mentor, Ohio don’t think it is a reach to state that there summer of 1970. (Although I was out of town annihilation from two rampaging communist I walked that hill often going to the phys ed Editor’s Note: The war deaths were are things that we still need to learn from the on May 4, 1970.) How can you devote the majority of a superpowers. They were indulgent and building and to music appreciation. memorialized by 58,175 daffodil bulbs shootings at Kent State. As I read John Mensch’s letter [spring/ magazine on the May 4 Shootings without tolerant of their kids’ immaturity and I hadn’t planned to go to college. I planted on the hillside site to symbolize the MARK BLOCH, BA ’78 summer 2020, “Readers Respond,” page 2], mentioning the “heroic” actions of Dr. misbehavior, but they could be pushed graduated from Massillon Washington High number of US losses in Vietnam, so they New York, NY I could not help but think that he and I Glenn Frank and the other professor too far, and they would fight to preserve School, and I got a good-paying job on an are not forgotten. And their names are attended very different Kent States. He who was with him? They stepped out in what they had built. The Silent Majority’s assembly line for Ecko products making pots listed in the national Vietnam Veterans Unforgettable Campus Tour wrote of “a few sit-ins” and “a few front of the Guard and kept them from anger may have helped many kids look at and pans. After a year, I got laid off. Memorial in Washington, DC. I graduated Kent in June 1979 and was demonstrations.” And he alluded to at firing a second volley. Many lives were themselves more honestly and think about I was standing on the corner in downtown commissioned a second lieutenant in the US least some by non-students. possibly saved. Their actions should not the consequences of their actions. Massillon with three friends. We were Army shortly upon graduation. My story at I beg to disagree. The first demonstration be forgotten. The students didn’t die in vain. Most discussing what we wanted to do, and Kent State did not begin in the fall of 1975 as against the Vietnam War was in the fall of NOEL EGENSPERGER, BA ’65, MA ’71 Americans have learned to get along better someone said, why don’t we go to college? an incoming freshman. My 6th grade class 1964, and they were held weekly from then Euclid, Ohio despite our many differences. KSU is now Someone else said, we could go to Kent. at Captain Arthur Roth Elementary School in on. Maybe he didn’t remember that ROTC officially a “Military Friendly Campus.” There So we did; we hopped in a car and headed Cleveland toured Kent on May 3, 1970. I was cadets were no longer required to wear Your spring/summer 2020 issue on May are many veterans in the Class Notes. When to Kent. When we got [to the university] we 12 years old. My mom attended the tour as a their uniform once a week. They were 4, 1970 was very good. Tragedies like the I attended Kent 1976-79, even though I was went to the Office of the President and asked chaperone. It was her first time setting foot getting too much criticism and comments Kent State Shootings can only be made a hawk, veteran and in the ROTC, I made the secretary if he was busy. He wasn’t. on a college campus and she, too, enjoyed from other students. Also, the weekly ROTC meaningful if they are remembered and lifelong friends with people who weren’t. [President George A. Bowman] invited us into the experience. cadet assemblies had to be moved to the used to further our understanding of In 1976, KSU ROTC felt safe enough to take his office and told us what Kent had to offer. While my classmates and I thought the football stadium to avoid threatened actions ourselves and our world, no matter how rock screens off the ROTC bus windows. In I began the elementary education program large gatherings of students were normal and by the SDS. difficult or painful that process may be. 1977-79, controversy about building a gym that fall. A college education was very sadly tried to process the shootings the next Or maybe he didn’t remember Bernardine After the Kent State Shootings, I knew on Blanket Hill caused tension, disruption affordable. The cost for a quarter was less day, I was inspired to attend college at Kent Dohrn running around the Williams Hall that if I went to college, I would go to and tumult. Some students deliberately than $100 and commuting made it work. It State and accelerated through high school to lecture room topless, shouting SDS Kent State. I attended Kent State from trespassed on the gym site so they would was a wonderful experience. get there early. propaganda. Or Jerry Rubin’s speech of “Up 1976-79. I attended demonstrations to get arrested, but the arrests were without I began teaching in December 1963. I was I am not sure if other Cleveland inner city With the Passage of Time Against the Wall ^%#+.” commemorate May 4 and protest plans incident and the trespassers were released. not on campus when the shootings took schools did the same at that time, but I am Fifty years have passed since the 1970 Mr. Mensch may have been gone when we to build a gym on Blanket Hill where the At a protest I missed, tear gas was used, but place. My fellow teachers included two WWII grateful for the experience to this day. There shootings. As an eventual alumni of Kent had the major march in October 1969 with National Guard fired from. But I noticed this was rare. Christian jocks who wanted veterans. I kept my feelings to myself. were quiet demonstrations of the shootings State University who was 14 years old and thousands of students and professors. that there were no demonstrations the gym and Christians like me who wanted I’m sending along [a check] for the each year I was there. I understood more living in Akron when the tragedy occurred (I was there.) about millions of Indochinese being to preserve our history and honor the dead scholarship fund. I just wanted to share my then, and my experience at Kent State 20 miles away, what I have seen over the I remember Kent as a very politically mass murdered, tortured, imprisoned, got together to pray for peace. But tensions story. Thanks for listening. was great. years is the original events with a valuable active campus during the years I attended. driven into desperate flight, denied basic never escalated to the extent they did in 1970. RICH CONVERSE, BS ’64 CARMEN (TURNER) POWELL, BA ’79 time factor added that has yielded many And do not even get me started about the freedoms. In [late December 1978-1979], Canton, Ohio Reston, Va. developments over the years, some good, antagonism between the Kent police force when the Viet Cong invaded Cambodia,

2 | KENT STATE MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2020-21 | 3 endowment for the Pep Band and HUGS the old wooden classroom burned. I often For Whom the Bell Tolls (Helping Undergraduates Gain Success) wonder if the outcome of May 4 would have My wife and I enjoyed reading the spring/ for Nurses, a scholarship for senior been different if the lawlessness of May 2 had summer 2020 Kent State Magazine. We nursing students. not occurred. would like to call to your attention that on As it says in his obituary, “Giving back It is quick and easy to blame the National page 15 there is an incorrect description of to Kent State was his way to touch the future.” Guard to find a conspiracy, but have you ever the Victory Bell. The last sentence reads: stood before an angry protest and wondered “The bell is now rung during May 4 More to the Story what’s next? There is a picture I saw after May Memorial remembrances—and also for As a Kent State alumna, I remember being 4 but cannot find now of a National Guard athletic triumphs.” indoctrinated with the KSU version of major banging his troops on their helmets As stated in the article, the bell was events. But context matters and there is with his weapon trying to get them to cease fire. removed after May 4, 1970, but was more to the story: The rioting and breaking THOM LAKSO, BA ’71 returned later. However, it was no longer of store windows that went on beforehand. Knoxville, Tenn. JIM JANNING JIM JANNING used for “athletic triumphs.” My wife and I The burning of the ROTC building. A state Upon reaching the crest, the guardsmen turned toward the parking lot and fired “This photo was taken during the 2003 reunion of the 1970 graduating class of talked with President Cartwright to see if it upon demonstrators. This photo appeared in the May 15, 1970 edition of Life architectural students,” says Jim Janning, BArc ’70. “We are gathered at the ‘pagoda,’ as of emergency declared. The rioting by Editor’s Note: There is a lot more to this magazine. (Howard Ruffner/Getty Images) it was called then. I am in the front, on Carol Olshavsky’s [BArc ’70] right side. She was could be placed on a trailer and used at the only woman in our class to make it through the five-year program. The class started in students when firemen tried to put out the tragic story than we were able to cover in 1965 with over 150 architecture students and ended in 1970 with about 30.” individual athletic events. She indicated fire. Events that resulted in the National a couple pages in a magazine. Over many It’s Not a Pagoda that it was to remain on the Commons as Guard being called in. These were not years, the university began the long, slow part of the historic site. I enjoyed the article on remembering May 4, 1970 [spring/summer 2020, “The campus police came by, and asked what we were doing, and peaceful protests. Students were told to process of memorializing the event and In 2011 we purchased and donated a “Memorials of May 4,” pages 14-17]. I did, however, want to bring one small we told them the truth. But they arrested us and took us to the campus disperse. They were throwing rocks and learning how to deal with diverse opinions trailer and another Victory Bell to the point to your attention. Regarding the concrete structure outside of Taylor jail. We said we had a right to make a phone call, so we called Shively debris at the soldiers. without dismissing them. university to be used by the athletic Hall on Blanket Hill, the first time it was mentioned in James Michener’s and told him where we were. He talked to the police and they escorted I am NOT in any way justifying students I would encourage you to explore some of department. The bell is stationed at most book [Kent State: What Happened and Why], he referred to the structure us back to the project, where we continued to dig. getting killed. It was a tragedy. What the resources now available through Kent athletic events and is rung by the Kent as a “pagoda.” Then, in the magazine story on page 16 I saw that the “The afternoon we were pouring the concrete (Bob knew someone is frustrating is the lack of context. State that provide a more complete picture of State team if they win. It is also available at structure was again called a pagoda. who had a concrete truck), Shively drove up in a station wagon How much of this was exacerbated by what was going on at the time. For example, KSU graduation ceremonies for those I’m not sure where that term came from, but this structure is not a filled with extra rebar he got at the library project that was under drinking? How many residents of Kent the Oral History Project invites stories from all graduates who want to ring it. pagoda. Based on a definition, “a pagoda is a Hindu or Buddhist temple construction at the time. So there’s extra steel in the structure because were terrorized by students breaking perspectives: https://omeka.library.kent.edu/ BUZZ, BS ’67, MARILYN, BS ’71, STARNER or sacred building, typically a many-tiered tower, in India and East Asia.” Shively didn’t want to lose his bet with McWilliams. windows and rioting downtown? How many special-collections/kent-state-shootings- Jackson Township, Ohio I have been to Japan and seen several pagodas, and this structure is not “The main structure is only 2 inches thick; the strength comes from residents of Kent feared for their lives? oral-histories.

by definition nor by architectural design a pagoda. it being a paraboloid, because curves are stronger than straight lines. Didn’t they have a right to live in their own Those diverse perspectives have been For reasons of clarity, I wanted to let you know that the structure is in (My mother was a math teacher and would make mathematical models city in safety? People should know the used to inform several recent projects, fact a “thin-shell (2 inches thick) steel-reinforced concrete structure, out of string or cardboard, so she was probably my inspiration for the whole story. which we tried to highlight in the magazine, designed with four inverted hyperbolic paraboloids that form a 10-foot design. I minored in math, physics and art.) ANNA (BONACCI) COSTANZO, BM ’88 including the Mapping May 4 app, https:// square.” The concrete foundation, located 36 inches below grade, is “We finished it up about three months before the shootings. [On Cleveland mappingmay4.kent.edu/about, which exactly the same structure as above ground. May 4, 1970], I had parked across from Taylor Hall and was heading includes voices from Kent shop owners and Not sure this will be of any value, but I just thought after 51 years I to a 1 p.m. class. I probably arrived about 10 or 15 minutes after the I do not understand why you residents. And see the Armed With Our Voices could help clarify the matter. I know this information because I designed, shootings, and I saw broken glass and pools of blood. People were commemorate a horrible event like the Digital Exhibit, https://armedwithourvoices. engineered and constructed the structure with another architecture running around screaming, and some girl cried, ‘What should I do? Kent State riots and shootings. You seem to org; May 4th Voices Radio Play, https:// student, Robert F. Gressard, BArc ’70 [Streetsboro, Ohio], in the fall What should I do?’ I said, ‘Get the hell out of here.’ make heroes of the rioters and say nothing May4voices.org; and the Augmented Reality quarter of 1969, just months before the shootings took place on May 4, “I drove home, grabbed my wife and left. Within two weeks I had a of the losses the National Guard sustained. Experience, http://may4thxr.kent.edu. 1970. I was on my way to an architectural class that day, soon after the job in Cleveland and finished up my courses by mail. When I saw that I didn’t see where you identified those shots were fired. photo of the structure in Life magazine (photo top left) that’s when it rioters as not students at KSU. I didn’t read Maybe Next Year JAMES DONALD JANNING, BARC ’70 really hit home. The shootings took a lot out of me. about the burning of the ROTC building I was a freshman at Kent State on May 4,

Charlotte, NC “When I went back to campus for the first time in 2003 for an and the cutting of fire hoses by the rioters. 1970. So glad the issue that had so much Editor’s Note: As the Starners, who have architecture class reunion (photo top right), it felt strange being there. You presented a biased, one-sided article about the 50th anniversary was available been supporters of Kent State Athletics Editor’s Note: The now iconic concrete structure has been referred to as I thought things would be more familiar, but it felt very different—until about student riots and violence. I think in print, as it will certainly be valuable to since 1969, clarify above, there are now the “pagoda” in multiple places over the years. Excited to learn the names we got to Taylor Hall and I saw it still there. you will fit right in with the left-wing media keep. We had our plane tickets, concert two Victory Bells: the original one that is of the structure’s designers, I asked Jim Janning for more details. The “I don’t think we had any idea that structure would last this long, and and selective reporting. Sorry Kent State tickets, all ready to come back to Kent for permanently placed on the Commons and following is an edited excerpt of our phone conversation: I don’t know what kind of shape it’s in now. Anyway, it was built as an produces such a bias. the commemoration, when everything was the Starner Victory Bell, which they “I designed that structure with fellow classmate Bob Gressard as a project inverted hyperbolic paraboloid. Somehow it got the title of ‘pagoda.’ If FRED GEMLICH, BS ’68 canceled. I was bitterly disappointed. I am donated along with a trailer. It was for a fifth-year structures course with Professor Robert Shively. He looked you want to call it an ‘umbrella structure,’ that’s fine.” Portage, Mich. hopeful the university will be able to plan at the design and thought it would work with wind loads, snow loads, etc. dedicated in 2011 and is taken to most “Leading up to the 50th commemoration, the university hired a something for next year. Another professor, Conrad McWilliams, got a hold of our drawings and athletic events, as well as Commencement There is a part of the story that everyone structural restoration consultant to make recommendations for some MIKE WILT, BS ’73 calculations, and he said, ‘That thing will never last.’ So they bet against (since 2016). For more information see ignores or chooses to forget. May 4 was needed repairs and to review the structure as a whole to ensure its St. Helena Island, SC each other as to whether our design would work or not. www.kent.edu/commencement/traditions. the conclusion that began with a lawless physical integrity,” notes Jay Graham, interim executive director in “We were supposed to install our projects around Taylor Hall, so one We learned of the passing of Lowell fire on May 2. I stood with my neighbor and the Office of the University Architect. “We will continue to maintain the night Bob and I were up on Blanket Hill, drinking beer and digging a three- “Buzz” Starner on November 28, 2020. friend, gymnastics coach Rudy Bachna as foot deep, ten-foot square hole for the foundation. structure, as it has historical importance for the university.” He and his wife recently created an

4 | KENT STATE MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2020-21 | 5 Prior Events If you’re interested in reading more about the Nine Wounded Are Now,” page 20] is into my email inbox in a Central American Her insights are just as meaningful more at KSU at that time. Well, guess what? Cara I graduated from KSU School of Business in the events from various perspectives, very short and Robbie deserves more, even jungle, through a tenuous third-world than six months into the crisis as they were Armstrong’s father, Foster D. Armstrong, was June 1968 and was hired by General Electric there are many books written about May though the writer couldn’t talk to Robbie 3G cellular system, during a world-wide at six weeks. As the parent of a current my architecture instructor that semester! Company. I have fond memories of my days 4, some from firsthand accounts. You can since he died some years ago. I would ask, pandemic, on May 4. You have gone KSU student, I am glad the university is So after driving 700 miles through three at Kent State. Most of my classes were in find a recommended reading list here: however, that someone beef up his writeup beyond the physical and design excellence home to such a gifted and thoughtful states, I discovered a connection between my Franklin Hall. I lived in an apartment on https://www.kent.edu/may4kentstate50/ with a point I’d like to offer, because he needed in publications—and penetrated humanist. I also heard her interviewed on college experience and Norwich University. We West Main Street and took the Campus Bus may-4-reading-list, and an annotated deserves more space and more credit in the heart and soul of a powerful subject. the radio and she is a great representative all had a good laugh and shared some warm Service to and from classes. bibliography of all the major publications helping the university. And you brought a tear to an old man’s eye of KSU. To me, Dr. Smith’s comments really memories. Go Flashes! The shooting on May 4, 1970 was truly a written on the event here: https://www. As Kent State’s executive director of in the jungle. manifest the spirit of “Flashes take care DAVID M. MILKOVICH, BS ’68, MEd ’71 tragedy! What I don’t understand, is why library.kent.edu/special-collections-and- communications for the 25th anniversary MARK STRATMAN, BFA ’73 of Flashes.” Akron, Ohio no one talks about the events that led archives/kent-state-shootings-selected-books. commemoration of May 4, I was the primary Tonka Bay, Minn. and Gales Point, Belize TIMOTHY PUIN up to the tragedy? The night before the contact working with Robbie, so I can attest Cleveland For the Record students burnt down the ROTC Building on Cover Kudos to this addition: Robbie, as his friends called Not Bound

the campus. I am sure there were outside The cover art for your spring/summer him, remained a staunch supporter of the Roses for Kent State sharing these Dinks Redux agitators that stirred up the students to 2020 Kent State Magazine was university. During the 25th anniversary of essential stories [spring/summer 2020, Just reading my Kent State Magazine, protest the Vietnam War. Then there was exceptional. As a proud graduate of the the shootings, he was one of the primary “Where the Nine Wounded are Now,” looking for the [hidden] squirrels, I ran the large crowd of students who gathered KSU Graphic Design program (now called contacts available to reporters, anchoring pages 18-20]. Thorns for using the archaic, across the dink debate [spring/summer downtown and started marching toward VCD), I was awed by the elegant and a media speakers bureau, determined to inaccurate, idiotic “wheelchair-bound” 2020, page 2]. I still have my dink that I the campus. This is when the KSU president poignant art. communicate the truth about May 4. instead of “uses a wheelchair for mobility” received at freshman orientation. The called the governor and requested the Ohio The tree with deep roots ties all Kent PAULA SLIMAK, BA ’68, MA ’71 in describing the device that liberates (not year was 1962. I likewise remember the National Guard to protect the campus. State graduates together. The nine gray Cleveland confines) Dean Kahler. possibility of cleaning the shield with a Then the tragic event happened! The leaves in the tree represent the nine I expect more out of my alma mater. toothbrush for walking on it, as well as National Guard on top of the hill and the wounded. And the four leaves fluttering to Editor’s Note: We added this additional It would be resignation-worthy to print being caught without your dink. students marching toward them with some the ground pay tribute and remind us of information about Robert Stamps to the something saying an African American is Keep up the good work. It is always nice throwing stones. No one knows for sure, those we lost. digital edition of the spring/summer 2020 “bound to black skin” or a person of the to receive the magazine and relive old but I could see a few members of the Bravo, John-Noall Reid, BA ’98. Your issue and and have included it here, as well. Jewish faith is “Jewishness-bound.” memories. (Because four years was just It is confirmed that my father, Prof.Victor National Guard get frightened and shoot. cover design resonated deeply. I will wager my life that you have never not enough.) Osagie Aimiuwu, PhD ’76, Los Angeles, Calif., It was all over in a few minutes. In hindsight, MONICA SILVER, BFA ’80 Worth All the Work printed an article identifying a Toyota BILL VIANCOURT, BSE ’67 Xenia, Ohio, was the first Black / African / the National Guard should have used Cleveland Thank you so much for emailing me [the driver as sedan-bound. Why? Because that North Ridgeville, Ohio African-American to receive a PhD in physics at rubber bullets and this tragedy would links to] the May 4 commemorative edition person is simply using a device of mobility KSU. He graduated the same year I was born in not have happened. of the magazine. Having been there, that efficiency. A Toyota gets them from a As I entered Kent State Trumbull Campus Allerton Apartments, and he became a full This is my understanding of what day, it means a lot to me that you not only workshop in Cleveland to a class in Kent for the first time during fall 1970, I was physics professor in Ohio at Central State happened. Is this correct? Are these the wrote and produced this thoughtful edition, more quickly and efficiently than walking. given a blue and gold skull cap with the University and a NASA research consultant events that led up to the shooting? but that you emailed it to me. It arrived in That’s all a wheelchair is—a device of letter “K” on the front. I was told it was a before he passed in November 2011. He was ROGER FREIBOTT, BBA ’68 my inbox exactly when I needed it. Thanks efficient mobility. “Bound” is ableist (look it tradition. I never wore it. also a physics professor from the 1970s–1990s Macedonia, Ohio especially for letting us know the stories of up, it’s like being racist, only toward people GERALD J. CANTON, BA ’79, MA ’98 at Ahmadu Bello University and University of the nine wounded. with disabilities). Chagrin Falls, Ohio Benin, which are both in Nigeria, before Editor’s Note: To fact check your My wife and I (we met at KSU) are now STEVE WRIGHT, BS ’87 returning to the United States. He is pictured understanding, we recommend you 3,000 miles away, far off-the-grid in Belize, Miami, Fla. Small World above as a Catholic Knight of Columbus in read “The May 4 Shootings at Kent State ‘stranded’ due to the coronavirus. Not such My wife and I recently attended our Xenia, Ohio. University: The Search for Historical a bad place to be, really. Peaceful. But we Editor’s Note: We ran the copy by Dean third Parent and Family Weekend at EHI E. AIMIUWU, MBA ’00, PhD Accuracy” by Jerry M. Lewis, Emeritus had planned on being there today, in Kent, Kahler prior to publication and he did not Norwich University in Vermont to mark Atlanta, Ga. Professor of Sociology, and Thomas R. for the 50th anniversary with you and so object to the wording. Nor did the writer the fifteenth year of our son’s graduation Hensley, Emeritus Professor of Political many of our old friends. I am beyond sad that intend anything other than to concisely and commissioning ceremony. (Nicholas Science, which can be found here: https:// it will not happen. Life-changing events do describe his situation; one which was the is a Lt. Col., US Army with numerous www.kent.edu/may-4-historical-accuracy. continue to happen, don’t they? result of a bullet wound and not something deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. We want to hear from you! For another concise account, you could Perhaps the print edition of the Kent State he was born with. The story also notes that He is currently stationed with his family Respond to magazine content read: This We Know: A Chronology of the What an absolutely fitting cover design. Magazine is waiting for us on our kitchen Dean Kahler ran races in his wheelchair. in Hawaii. or comment on topics related to Shootings at Kent State, May 1970 by Carole I will keep this forever. table in Minnesota. We’ll read it when the However, we acknowledge that the word Because of the light drizzle that morning, Kent State by writing: Barbato, Laura Davis and Mark Seeman. JERRY O’RYAN, MPH ’17 airports open and we return. But this digital choice is a cliché and could be offensive to we decided to step into one of the campus Kent State Magazine According to that account (and Lewis and Centerville, Ohio edition is magnificent. Upon receiving my others who use wheelchairs for mobility; buildings on the Upper Parade Ground P.O. Box 5190 Hensley’s account), it was the mayor of BFA from KSU, the 20th-century half of my we will avoid it in the future. before the cadets came out for review. We Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 Kent, Leroy Satrom, who in consultation Extra Credit career was in book design and the publishing were greeted in the lobby by an instructor or [email protected]. with Kent’s police chief, declared a state First, thank you and everyone involved in industry. I certainly remember tight Pandemic Perspective who informed us that the projects on Responses may be edited for style, of emergency and requested help from the the virtual commemoration for yeoman publication schedules. Thank you to Dr. Tara C. Smith, professor display were the work of freshman length, clarity and civility. governor. You can obtain a copy through efforts under such stressful circumstances. I am quite impressed with the way you have of epidemiology, for sharing her reflections architecture students. I mentioned that I, your library or at The Kent State University I noticed that the writeup about Robert worked the words, the stories, the people on the initial days of the pandemic too, was (briefly) an architecture student Visit us online Press, http://www.kentstateuniversitypress. Stamps [spring/summer 2020 “Where and the images into digital media for such lockdown [spring/ summer 2020, at Kent State in the fall of 1964. She www.kent.edu/magazine com/2012/this-we-know/. beautiful results, in a periodical, and got it “Perspective on a Pandemic,” page 4]. replied that her father was an instructor 6 | KENT STATE MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER 2020-21 | 7